"Requiem 1981/1987 Part One" Trivia Quiz

Answer: A funeral

The people in Theo Graves' life arrive at the cemetery to commemorate his death, standing over his final resting place to see him off. As Sam looks at the plot and listens to the eulogy, he sways and collapses, going unconscious moments after he spies Big Daddy's silhouette standing aside from the funeral service.

Sam awakens in a hospital to find that he's being cared for by Billy, who he never knew was a nurse when he was killed...if he was at all. His supposed doctor, Theo, comes in to tell him he has pneumocystis pneumonia; it's serious but usually resolves on its own. Unfortunately, his body doesn't seem to be responding...and this is the only hospital that will see him. They're afraid of this virus and they're afraid of him.

Answer: Stewart

Sam emerges from his hospital room back on his feet and Theo walks him through the corridors of the building answering questions for his confused patient. It's hard to say whether or not Sam intended to kill him; he doesn't think he did. The others, however, are question marks. There are others whose lives Sam managed to devour. Theo reminds Sam that, at one time, he said something was coming. That something is finally upon them.

Theo brings Sam into one of the other rooms in the hospital to find a body in the bed. The man there was admitted a month earlier with the same infection that Sam has. Sam barely remembers this patient-- Danny, the first man he and Theo opened their relationship up to. As Danny begins to leak bodily fluids and Sam cowers away, they move on.

In the next room, they find Stewart, the last man Sam had in his cellar cage. He was unwell before he met Sam, but doctors didn't know it yet. Now he wastes away. Theo encourages Sam to give him a kiss; he needs compassion. Sam reluctantly complies.

Answer: False

Theo brings Sam back through the hospital, headed for his room, and they arrive to find an unfamiliar space that Theo insists is the right spot. Inside, Sam is already in his bed, deeply unwell having been in the hospital long enough to be forgotten. Theo remarks that it's one thing to be celebrated, but it's another to be loved; no one in his circle really had an actual taste for Sam as a person so no one came.

Over time, Sam's immune system degraded to the point where his body couldn't fight off infection, and the lesions on his body were nothing compared to the destruction inside. No medication would keep it away. Money wouldn't buy his way out. As Theo and Sam watch on, the Sam laying in bed awakens and vomits, screaming for help.

Answer: Henry

Sam awakens locked inside his cellar cage in a sparsely-lit, black room. Though he screams for help, Henry, clad all in leather, emerges from the shadows and grabs some of the grotesque devices from the nearby table. Henry remarks that they're despicable devices, made to make outsiders hate men like him; Sam says that Henry was a hitman and a murderer and likely brought it on himself. The catch with both of them, Henry admits, is that they're misunderstood.

As Big Daddy emerges from the dark, he grabs a whip and approaches a man chained to a nearby table. Henry tells Sam to understand the difference between pain and pleasure and forces him to watch as his father is attacked by the hulking figure, much to his distress. Henry has to ask-- was this where all the violence began?

Another man is illuminated in the dark-- Sam's first boss when he worked on Wall Street. This man, chained to a chair, is deprived of his dignity while Sam watches on in shock. Sam always strived for power, but at the expense of others.

The final figure to be shown is Sam himself, and as Big Daddy removes his hood and stares at him, Henry says that it's time to stare at that which brings chaos to his life. Fortunately, Sam is able to break his chains and fall out of his imprisonment...but he finds himself falling into the sands of Fire Island.

Answer: Transcend

Collapsing onto the Fire Island beach in front of his beach house, Sam gets to his feet not a moment before Big Daddy starts to pursue him across the sand. Henry, watching from the side of the beach, tells him that he can't outrun him; he's too slow and the darkness always wins.

Sure enough, Big Daddy is able to reach Sam and grab him in a bearhug, squeezing tightly as Sam cries in terror. Looking down the beach, Sam realizes, as the other men who've fallen victim to the crisis at hand, all donning antlers, await his arrival. All that Sam has left to do, Henry says, is transcend.

Sam turns around and slowly removes Big Daddy's mask, coming to terms with his fate and embracing him while the others, Theo amongst them, close in. Henry congratulates Sam with a well done before they vanish.

On the beach, Henry takes a white urn in his hands and dumps the ashes into the ocean.

Answer: Blindness

Gino arrives at the hospital to find a building almost vacant of staff. As he passes by rooms of men sealed away by hermetic plastic sheeting, he proceeds into Patrick's room with a bouquet of flowers. The year is 1987.

As Gino cleans up, Patrick awakens. Gino finds that the IV bag on the stand is empty and brings Patrick a glass of water though Patrick is almost too weak to take it. When the doctor finally arrives, he comes with bad news. Unfortunately, the disease has progressed to the point where his retinas have detached; Patrick is permanently blind and, unfortunately, AIDS patients are not eligible for the complicated surgery to reattach them.

Patrick simply asks Gino to just be there with him. He's scared.

Answer: Barbara

Gino remains with Patrick, feeding him apple sauce, before Patrick tells him to sell his life insurance policy. If he does, it'll pay for his funeral, otherwise it'll just go to his parents. Gino doesn't want to think about it, but he promises.

That evening, Patrick listens to his IV drip before reaching for his call button, accidentally dropping it on the floor. He yells for help but, when no one comes, he gets out of bed to reach for it, slipping on the floor and tearing the IV from his arm. He struggles as he tries to find his way but he hears a voice calling his name from the hall.

Feeling around on the floor, Patrick finds a wheelchair, pulls himself into it, and wheels into the corridor. Though he doesn't see the lights flickering on and off around him, he does manage to lead himself towards the light.

Barbara tells him to open his eyes and look at her, and when he does he finds that he can see his ex-wife standing before him in her wedding gown. He cries, asking if she's there to punish him. She isn't. There's nothing left of him to punish, she says. She's there, instead, to help him see.

As Patrick takes Barbara's hand he rises from his wheelchair and they proceed into the light together.

Answer: At a crime scene

Barbara brings Patrick to the scene of a crime, finding it's the day that Patrick met Gino, the former there to investigate a suicide and the latter there to report on the case for 'The Native'. It's the day after Halloween, 1980. As Gino ask questions, he flirts, and while it makes Patrick uncomfortable, it's clear that there's something about his swagger that attracts him. Gino leaves his number and Patrick pockets it.

Barbara brings Patrick to August 1977 where his partner fired on a suspect. Cleaning him up in the showers, it was one of the first times he had a homosexual experience. He was caught by one of his fellow officers and it sent him into a tailspin of shame that would follow him for years.

Answer: Shooting tin cans

Barbara and Patrick are brought, next, to Mr. Whitely's warehouse. Whitely tells Patrick, as he saws into a corpse, that he needs to do what he can for the community and the greater good, and for that he needs to get dirty. While Patrick balks at the idea of committing such ghastly acts, Whitely heads to a nearby case, pulling Patrick's head out of it with the intent to sew it to the rest of the body on the table.

Patrick, Barbara says, was a botch job. He gathered up all the pieces and put himself back together over and over again. There was always pain that tore him up; his body would always remember. He would need to face it to find release from that pain.

And that's why, in his last vision, Barbara brings him to the woods where a young Patrick spends time shooting tin cans with his father. After several missed shots, his father tells him he needs to keep a firmer grip; they call it 'limp-wristing'. His father insists that he needs to get it right to make his family proud.

As the sky starts to thunder, Patrick remarks that it's worse than he remembered.

Answer: False

Gino watches over Patrick and holds his hand while still in the hospital in 1987. Patrick, barely managing to speak, apologizes to Gino for everything. Barbara, sitting next to the bed, can only watch as the pair share their final moments.

Behind her, Kathy Pizzaz sings a mournful jazz tune in the spotlight.

Along the wall, Big Daddy stares down at the bed.

As Patrick struggles to take his last breaths, Gino crawls onto the bed next to him and reminds him he's there, embracing him as his heart rate monitor flatlines.

Some time later, Gino removes himself from Patrick's empty hospital room and packs his last belongings in a paper bag. He looks back one last time before he departs.